A Murder, a Mystery and a Secret History
San Francisco, 1951. Josie O Conner s gay brother is nowhere to be found. His friends claim that just before he disappeared he became a rat, informing the cops on the bar community s nascent resistance to raids, graft and brutality.
What s a loving sister to do? Josie sets off to clear his name, halt the blackmailers, and exact justice for the mounting number of corpses. Along the way she rubs shoulders with a sultry chanteuse running a dyke tavern called Pandora s Box, gets intimate with a red-headed madam, and conspires with the star of Finocchio s, a dive so disreputable it s off-limits to servicemen...
An illustrated murder mystery deeply steeped in San Francisco s past, "Blackmail, My Love" distills history and fiction into a brilliant and visually stunning read.
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